Secondment experiences
My project entails developing a novel illumination system using a Digital Micromirror Device for super resolution imaging. I visited Professor Suck Jun's lab in the University of California San Diego for 5 months from March to July 2016. The project I was working on was to combine the advanced long-term bacterial imaging technology of the Jun lab with a novel imaging and illumination platform developed by the Cadby lab, with the aim of imaging the growth of large numbers of individual bacteria through their life-cycle using a combination of imaging techniques. During my visit I applied confocal imaging to image E. coli cells. I also built an epi-fluorescence targeted illumination system to selectively illuminate bacteria of interest from a group of growing E. coli cells. Figure 1: Two E. coli cells selectively illuminated from growing E. coli cells lined up in mother machine channels
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